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Solar flares in February 1988
C-class12
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.11988-02-20
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1987 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C3.0 |
| February 1988 | 12 | 1 | 0 | M1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-02-20 | 04:05 | 04:14 | 87 | M1.1 | S08W68 | 4951 |
| 1988-02-03 | 13:01 | 13:02 | 34 | C3.0 | N24E24 | 4939 |
| 1988-02-05 | 11:25 | 12:05 | 100 | C2.3 | – | – |
| 1988-02-08 | 09:26 | 09:32 | 9 | C1.5 | – | – |
| 1988-02-08 | 13:33 | 13:38 | 11 | C1.3 | – | – |
| 1988-02-28 | 15:51 | 15:59 | 27 | C1.3 | N18E64 | 4957 |
| 1988-02-01 | 04:13 | 04:41 | 33 | C1.2 | N22E56 | 4939 |
| 1988-02-03 | 02:40 | 02:43 | 27 | C1.2 | N22E30 | 4939 |
| 1988-02-06 | 14:25 | 17:50 | 480 | C1.2 | – | – |
| 1988-02-08 | 15:00 | 15:08 | 20 | C1.1 | – | – |
| 1988-02-11 | 02:47 | 02:51 | 34 | C1.1 | N27W54 | 4946 |
| 1988-02-07 | 11:47 | 11:56 | 13 | C1.0 | N26W08 | 4943 |
| 1988-02-09 | 08:59 | 09:03 | 8 | C1.0 | – | – |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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13 flares of class C or larger in February 1988; by M/X count it ranks 412 of 565 months.